If you won the lottery this week

Lets say you win £5m. A nice tidy sum but you're hardly the next Abramovic. Would you carry on working in any form?

 

I would, after I've donated a large amount to charity, I'd be bored at home despite the money.

 

I would enrol myself on some daily guitar classes so I could finally get to a higher standard than I am now and spend the rest of the time reading novels and watching films that I never get time to. I would then travel the world. I circumnavigated the globe in 2007 for 3 months but that really was nowhere near enough time. I'd probably do it for a year this time and see when I got back whether work was something I ever fancied doing again.

 

Of course. I would have a wildlife sanctuary with a recording studio built on. All I would do is shovel **** and make great records.

 

If I won tonight's Euro lottery (est. 80m) I'd install Perkins as player manager on a 5 year deal, with Kennedy as his assistant.

Don't know why...Must be the devil in me...

 

I'd spaff a total of about a million quid on a house, fancy car, travelling the world and generally over-indulging for about 12 months. Give maybe £250,000 to close family and friends. Then try and live off the interest for a long while - that would surely equate to a few grand a week even at the current rates wouldn't it?

 

Travel the world watching sporting events, if its a big sporting event i'd be their. apartment in New York & Sidney and a massive farm house in Yorkshire to call home. wouldn't be time to work

 

Having said that i'd pack in work if i won 250k to be honest

 

No. Base myself in Barnsley but see the world trying to take in as many sporting events as possible.

Employ my mum as dog sitter for when I am away.

 

Would I ****.

 

Think 50 grand and I'd sack it off for a while to be honest, we're only here once.

 

Nope never again I had 20 grand once and did no work and travelled Asia and Australia for 4 years.

 

If I won 80m I would be dangerous! Booze, birds cars, you name it al do it

 

I'd probably do the booze and cars mate but ive no interest in keeping pigeons or budgies

 

I would spent £i.4 million on a camping site and canal in East Yorkshire, employ my family to do what they do now, but be basically working for themselves. Buy a villa in Malta, so I could spend the winter in a warmer enviroment and just fly back to here on the weekend we have a home match.
Organise a bloody big BBS piss up, free bar !!
Travel to New Zealand, Mexico again, Africa and spend November in Hong Kong and Macau.
Go to Isle of Man TT every year and stay in the top hotel, either the Sefton or Palace Hotel , Beautiful hotels !!

Then waste the rest on 2 full backs.

 

And buy me a pint.

 

The only drawback was having to be a rent boy in Pattaya for 3 years when the initial 20k ran out.....am I right?

 

50quid n I'd jack

 

That wasn't a drawback it was a highlight at least until you turned up with that dwarf, a bag of eels and a Dalmatian called Bob and made me do those special things.

 

Not sure how to reply to this in all honestly, because I have had the fortune to share in a sizeable lottery jackpot - shared amongst 23 others in my office 7 years ago. Not enough to change my life significantly, but enough to be able to buy us a vacation house (in British Columbia - not Maui, or New York!) to buy my other half an imported Mini, and buy some close family and friends airline tickets to visit me here. So yes, I am still working but it made us "comfortable".

But with 5 million, that would be life-changing - I would sort out my kids' educations, travel a lot and set up some sort of charitable foundation. The traveling would undoubtedly include far too many trips to Oakwell mind you.